Quote: After a long hiatus I finally got back to it tonight. It was a cardio filled class with lots of randori and ne waza. My left elbow is giving me fits too. I can't hardly pull without writhing in pain.

I've started having some pretty serious pain in my left elbow also, and it came down to my poor deashi harai technique. Somehow, having my hips way too far away from uke was putting odd stresses on my elbow when I started "turning the wheel"

My elbow is better it seems. I didn't have much problem with it last week.

I keep getting paired up with Bill, he's basically a gorilla,lol. Very hard to do throws on,but the sweeps I can handle. He uses his strength over technique which wins out right now,but as my technique improves things will change.

I think he's the only other one going with me to the tournament.

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Had a good class tonight. The instructor tries to wear us out in the first 45 minutes,then he says,"ok,let's begin judo!" lol..If he knew what my goju classes are like he would shite himself. There's always a couple of people that have to stop and get drinks though,so he does give us a pretty good workout.

We practiced holddowns and transitioning holddowns tonight. He told me I had good technique and said I am a "go" for the tournament. Yay.

It's not easy holding down my 260lb gorilla training partner,lol. Then the smaller 15yr old kid was like a ferret, I swear he ran around inside my gi a time or two!! I dod get a good rolling armbar that we learned last week.

I injured my shoulder trying to do osoto gari and had my arm too high when I did kuzushi,sh1t!

Overall a good night of training. 5 weeks til the tournament.

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Had a great class,but I'm pretty wore out from it. I came away with alot of bruises,busted lip, and a black eye from randori and newaza. I had no idea they were there until it was over. I guess it just comes from scrambling,lol.

We worked a lot on newaza and randori after the warm ups. Good learning experience.

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